Let me introduce you to another good friend of mine who has left the Bahai World Centre already, Kevin Habibi. He is next to Amir on this picture. On 31 December Russian-speaking friends and their friends and family got together for a little celebration giving respect to the old Soviet tradition. In Soviet times, we didn't believe in religion, therefore, we didn't have Christmas or Kurban-Ait, or any other religious celebrations. But we had our own Soviet holidays, one of the biggest ones was a New Year's eve. People are still so much into it, that even after becoming Bahais some of us cannot not to do anything on that night. I guess old traditions have long and tough roots, and it'll take a while for us to get unused to them:) Well, everything takes time:) Anyway, there was a lot of Russian food, jokes and TV New Year's programms. Kevin Habibi has special regards with Russian-speaking friends, kind of a closeness or connection. He would understand and laugh at all the jokes which is a rare case with people from another culture, usually Russian jokes are hard to translate so they are as funny as they are in Russian:0) And it is not just about jokes, he is very Russian in a way that I cannot describe, or, I should say, very open and friendly and patient with us. He felt easy in our company, so did we. And he is in general the kind of a person that treats everyone equaly, without any favorism or preferences. I must say that he is one of the few i have met so far who has this amazing quality.
2 comments:
Tahmina joon,
At first I thought that 1 year was heaps too long to put aside for service at the Holyland... but soon that 1 year became 2.6 years.. and ever since I have thanked my lucky stars for the opportunity to be along side with such beautiful souls serving at the Baha'i world centre. Some with angelic voices(yeah you know who Tahmina). I hope we keep in touch.
& one thing I really miss offcourse are the Russian jokes. Naturally it all depends who’s telling it.
By the way I’m at http://kevinhabibi.blogspot.com/
With lots of love from Sydney.
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